Congratulations to all the nominees and winners of the 2018 Art Music Awards. The winners, drawn from the six states and territories in 11 categories, were announced at a gala event honouring Australia’s finest art music composers from the genres of contemporary classical music, jazz, experimental music and sound art, held at Melbourne’s Plaza Ballroom…
World-renowned shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) master, Riley Lee, has joined forces with the Enigma Quartet in Five Elements, an ambitious commissioning and performance project to create an entirely new genre of music that blends Japanese with European music. They will perform in November as part of the popular monthly Prelude in Tea series at North…
Eighth Blackbird, the Chicago based ensemble tours to Sydney for Musica Viva performing music from its prizewinning albums Filament and Hand Eye with a world premiere by Sydney composer Holly Harrison. The sextet celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2016 with a fourth GRAMMY for Filament, Chamber Music America’s inaugural Visionary Award and the title of 2017…